'Exterminate' Was a High Bar: Critics Flag Motte-and-Bailey in AI Safety Rhetoric
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-10
inductionheads calls out what he sees as the world's biggest motte and bailey: when pressed, 'exterminate the species' quietly becomes 'take down some infrastructure.' Exterminate is a high bar, he argues — stop throwing it around — and notes 100k people die a day from lack of this (technology's benefits).
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